With all of the considerations about the benefits of Christian morality in Western society, it's sometimes easy to lose sight of just how anomalous and primitive Christian religiosity is. While it is easy to understand why it is so - religion is a human product and religiosity reflects human perceptions of the world, nature and society - a question lingers why it is not being improved, like most of the other human products. Why all those popes and bishops at various times can’t admit "we poor human creatures didn’t understand God’s message correctly" or "we pictured that wrongly"? Even worse, it looks that through the centuries the absurdities accumulate.

Take, for instance, angels, God’s messengers and missionaries. Only three angels are menti- oned in Bible by name but Matthew announced that Jesus have twelve legions of angels, ready to carry his orders. No mention of wings. And in early Christian art angels were presented as small boys, naked (that is how we know they are boys), without wings. Then small boys got wings. Why? In nature, there are examples of simple earthly creatures, unattractive if not ugly, who in the second life become winged beauties. The second life, the afterlife, is the main bait of all religions.